CPOV

I woke up to the sounds of voices, probably my siblings. I wondered what was in stoer for me today. Soon, I felt small fists

banging on my chest, screaming for me to rise out of my deep slumber. Eventually I surrendered and awoke to see my 4 year old sister, Haylie, smiling at me.

Great, my own human alarm clock, just what i needed, if only there was a snooze button.

h- chaddy? chaddy? are you up?

c- i smiled at her; good morning haylie

h- goodmorning, chaddy! she said smiling

c- no goodmorning kiss?; i said smirking

h- (she kissed me on the cheek)

c- that's more like it; (i tickled her and she laughed furiously)

h- stop, chaddy! stop!

c- (i stopped) come on, lets go wake up everyone..

My feet touched the cold wooden floor, as we roamed through the halls, to wake up our family.

That's right, our family, we didn't have a mom or a dad, just a house parent that only came to visit once a week.

There are 12 of us. Me, Haylie, Greg who is 7, Carter and Mason who are 8, the 10 year old twins: Macy and Kasey, Robert who is 12, Eric who is 15, and Tess, who is the same age as me.

I know, it's a lot, but we all live together, my and somehow manage not to kill each other. Me and Tess have taken it upon ourselves to run the household. Tess is like the big, protective,

tomboy of a sister that I never had. She's only older by 3 months, but nevertheless she is my best friend. She helped me get over my, err, problem I had when we were little, you know family stuff,

why my parents left me, and what it would be like to live here. It was hard, and to be honest, I'm really not over it, I hate my parents with a passion. Who does that, you have children,

keep them for 8 years and give them away? It made no sense, they just dumped me and Eric like pieces of trash, oh yeah, i forgot to mention,

Eric is my blood brother. Nothing can come between the two of us, all of us really. We are all family, no matter where we came from, we know each other like the back of our hands,

and we's do anything for each other. So yeah, i kno what you're thinking, CDC, YOU'RE FAMOUS, THE GREATEST ACTOR OF OUR GENERATION, YOU'RE RICH,

WHAT ARE YOU DOING LIVING IN AN ORPHANAGE? Well, it's a long story, but I'll sum it up. I got fed up and couldn't handle being an orphan, it got to be too much,

so I ran away from home, some guys thought i had star quality, movie magic happened, and i became famous. My agent tried to adopt me, but he only wanted, me,

not Eric, and not the rest of them, so I stayed. Because nothing comes between family. I love them all, even if they are a little crazy, I mean, you might not believe it,

but for some reason they constantly tease me about Sonny, and how I like her. Please, what a joke, I don't even know where they come up woth this stuff, but I wish they'd stop,

it's getting annoying. We finally reached Eric's room. I opened the door and entered casually.

E- Yeah, come on in, cause I totally invited you in here anyway!

C- thanks, bro...

H- Eric! she squealed, loosened out of my grip and ran to give him a hug.

E- Hey, Haylie. So Chad, what are you doing up? Thought you needed beauty rest?

C- Haylie woke me up, and beauty is naturally enstilled in me...

E- Dude, please, save the cockiness for Sonny...

C- Excuse me? What does Sonny have to do with anything?

E- Oh, I'm sorry, what's that you called her again, oh yeah, Sonshine?

C- You were not supposed to be in my room!

H- giggles, Sonny? Is that your girlfriend?

C- No, she isn't!

E- Might as well be, you talk about her all day long!

Just then Macey and Kasey barged through the door.

K- Oooh, who are you guys talking about, Sonny?

M- Isn't that Chad's girlfriend?

K- yeah, way to be late, Mace!

M- How come I always hear everything last?

K- (shrugs) You know Chad, you should bring her over, we don't bite!

E- yeah, Chad, bring her over! (he laughs hysterically)

C- Guys, what are you talking about, Sonny is not my girlfriend!

E- you wish she was!

C- look, she is the last person on earth, i'd ever think about dating!

Tess, peaks around the door frame, and laughs.

T- are you guys, talking about Sonny again, what happened, did she break up with you?

M- oh, no, she did?

T- Chad, I told you to lay off the ego!

K- yeah, that probably pushed her over the edge!

C- Umm, hello, am I speaking another language? Me and Sonny are nothing? We never dated, and I don't even like her!

T- Oh, so then you guys, didn't break up?

C- AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I screamed and stormed out of the room.

They all broke into a fit of laughter.

T- Don't worry, he'll get it sooner or later.